This article was first published on August 10, 2026 on Conservation Law Foundation’s blog. It is reprinted with permission. Top photo: The fishing industry is key to New England’s culture and history, via EcoPhotography. Five Ways CLF Has Fought to Protect Fish and Fisheries Decades of advocacy have made a difference in New England Fish […]
On July 24, 2026, the recreational fishing tackle industry’s largest trade organization, the American Sportfishing Association (ASA), issued a press release which declared that “Sportfishing Groups Support Rep. Austin Scott’s South Atlantic Red Snapper Fair Access Act.” The press release went on to note, In recent years, recreational anglers in the South Atlantic have been […]
Molly Masterton joined the Network and host Tom Sadler for an online Waterside Chat on July 14, 2026. Molly is a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, where she works to promote sustainable fisheries management and the application of ecosystem-based management tools to ocean resources in the U.S. and abroad. Watch now: In […]
Top photo via Wikipedia I was 13 years old and excited, because I was finally allowed to join my father and two of his friends on a party boat trip, targeting cod on Rhode Island’s Cox’s Ledge. I had fished for cod before, from other party boats, but they were either half-day trips or trips […]
Trees are often not part of the conversation when talking about fishery management. In Southeast Alaska, however, our region’s fisheries depend on and interconnect with our region’s forests, specifically the Tongass National Forest, the world’s largest coastal temperate rainforest. The future of the Tongass and Southeast Alaska’s fisheries hang in limbo as the U.S. Department […]
Meredith Moore, Director of the Fish Conservation Program at The Ocean Conservancy, joined the Network for an online Waterside Chat on May 27, 2026. Meredith combines a science background with a desire to find pragmatic solutions that work for people and for the environment. Watch her conversation with host Tom Sadler now: Follow on Substack […]
When the Magnuson Act and I first met, it was 1978, and we were both young and inexperienced. I was lucky enough to get a job with the National Coalition for Marine Conservation (NCMC, now Wild Oceans), an organization that was there at the birth of ocean fish conservation and helped mid-wife it. Two years […]
This year’s World Ocean Day hits a little differently. It falls in the 50th anniversary year of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the law that transformed how this country manages its fisheries and set us on a path toward healthier oceans. The ocean provides food, livelihoods, and a natural infrastructure that supports life […]
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